For the 2011-2012 academic year, the Algebra Seminar is organized by Clif Ealy and Annegret Paul. 

Date                               Speaker                            Topic                                                                

January 13                                                                Organizational Meeting (2 pm in 6625 EV)

January 18            Clifton Ealy (WMU)                   On linear real reductive subgroups of GL(H), H a Hilbert space (abstract)

January 25          Clifton Ealy (WMU)                   On maximal finitary subgroups of GL(H), H a Hilbert space (abstract)

February 1          Annegret Paul (WMU)                Direct Limit Lie Groups I (abstract)

February 8          Annegret Paul (WMU)                Direct Limit Lie Groups II (abstract)

February 15           David Richter (WMU)                Root systems of rank-infinity Lie algebras I (abstract)

February 22         David Richter (WMU)                Root systems of rank-infinity Lie algebras II

February 29           Adriane Ware (WMU)                The Cayley-Dickinson Process and the Real Normed Algebras Fm (abstract)

March 14            Timothy Clark (WMU)               The Cayley-Dickinson Process and Aut(Fm) for 1≤m≤3 (abstract)

March 21            Daniel Sievewright (WMU)         The Compact Operators on a separable Hilbert space (abstract)

March 28               Jay Wood (WMU)                       Clifford Algebras and Spinor Groups (abstract)

April 4               James Schwass (WMU)             On Aut(F_m) for m a non-negative integer (abstract)

April 11                 Alper Bulut (WMU)                      K-Loops constructed from group transversals I (abstract)

April 18                 Alper Bulut (WMU)                      K-Loops constructed from group transversals II (abstract)

Please direct comments and/or questions regarding the algebra seminar to annegret(dot)paul(at)wmich(dot)edu .

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